Posted on 01/20/2009 7:29:14 AM PST by Welcome2thejungle
I’m looking forward to seeing this movie.
Hubby and I already have plans to see that and Gran Torino.....
Your diplomacy policy is sh*t
Grand Torino is fun; lots of unexpected giggles.
I agree, wife and i saw it this weekend... very well acted and a good story to boot.
Yeah, like the priest & Asian girl's complete lack of acting ability. Every line in every scene spoken in the exact same tone.
You're right....about the movie and the new president.
Thanks for the review. Its one of the few movies that looked interesting. I always wait for the DVD and was just horribly disappointed with “Appaloosa” last night.
I saw Valkyrie and enjoyed it. Hubby and I plan to see Defiance this weekend, hopefully.
Thanks for the review and historical lead-in. Very much appreciated.
My guys (husband and son) saw it on Saturday night. They both gave it 2 thumbs up!
Our theater advertised it when we went too see the Hitler movie two weeks ago, but has not put it on. It is in a theater 30 miles away in another city, but not here. Strange they showed the advertisements of it, but did not put on the movie.
I plan to watch this movie although a offspring of Polish immigrants who lived through WW2, I wish hollywood would reconize that it wasn’t just the Jews who were butchered and it wasn’t just the nazi’s who were doing the killing........
the Russians were just as guilty—
The Katyn massacre
I think some movies are best seen at the theater though, and IMO, that's the case for Defiance. I know it sucks to go to the theater these days, but when I went to Defiance Sunday afternoon, there were fewer than a dozen people there. Great movie, but I'd still like to read the book and see how true to the facts they are. I've heard they glossed over some of their activities with the Russian communists.
Today’s events remind me more of Deliverance ... and I’m sure everyone who has seen the movie knows which scene.
Saw it last weekend. Thought it was OK, a bit long and full of Hollywood stereotypes. I’d put it on a par with ‘Valkyrie’ and behind ‘Doubt’ and ‘Frost/Nixon’. And it beat the alternative, which would have been ‘Marley and Me’.
I totally agree. Both sides committed savage atrocities. When the Soviets invaded Germany in 1945, practically every single female, no matter what age, was raped. And of course the Soviet slaughter of Polish officers in the Katyn forest was a hideous atrocity. The sheer level of slaughter and brutality on the Eastern Front defies imagination. Even the enormous scale of the titanic battles fought there defies western sensibilities. For example, more people died in the Battle of Stalingrad then the sum total of all U.S. military fatalities from The Revolutionary War to Iraq. The military and civilian losses on the Eastern Front as well as the butchery exhibited by both sides was simply staggering.
She has criticized the director for not supporting Israel as it defends itself against Muslim terrorists, today's Nazis. She says Hollywood loves the dead Jews, but not the living ones. She interviewed the director, who is Jewish, but could not get him to say anything positive about Jews defending themselves today. We could also use a movie about the Warsaw uprising by Jews.
The Nazis, German socialists, were strong practitioners of gun control. It sure helped them to deal with their “Jewish problem,” gypsy problem, homosexual problem, handicap problem, Slavic problem, and any other “problems” that they dealt with by murdering about 20 million people (excludes deaths of soldiers in battle). Debbie Schlussel opposes gun control and links it to the German Jewish holocaust. I think it's a valid, and insufficiently commented upon, observation. Our founders sensibly linked gun rights to resitance to tyranny, even without the benefit of such examples as Hitler and Stalin.
I just saw Grand Torino and enjoyed it. But as Schussel noted, he insulted just about every ethnic group, but not the Muslims. I think he did give a good look at the Muslim woman (nurse?) at the Doctor's office.
We could also use a movie about Joseph Stalin's Ukrainian holocaust (5 to 10 million murdered). It could include Walter Duranty, head of the New York Times Moscow bureau, successfully denying the holocaust. The US press knew what was going on and rewarded Duranty and the Times with a Pulitzer prize.
I would also like to see a movie covering the time between our troops (except for embassy staff) departing Vietnam, and the fall of Vietnam, some two years later. It could show the post-Watergate Congress reneging on all obligations to South Vietnam, the communists preparing to resume the war, and the ultimate collapse. It may not be too late to do this again - in Iraq.
Books that would make excellent movies (but won't) include Witness by Whittaker Chambers, and State of Fear my Michael Crichton.
Political correctness reigns in Hollywood.
I just finished re-reading Whittaker Chamber’s book, Witness. Wow! Now that would make a fascinating movie! Perhaps the most significant book ever written regarding the struggle of good versus evil from a man who came over to the light from the side of darkness and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Thank you for posting this review. I will get back to you later.
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